I’m sure that some of you have used Google Maps. The latest versions, including the one for the iPhone can plan a route for you using public transport, as well as the “traditional” car and pedestrian route planning. In Australia right now you can only do it for two cities (Adelaide and Perth) because these are the only public transport providers which have made their data available for Google to read.

There is an excellent article here about this, suggesting that we lobby our local transport providers to get them added to the network. The Google article about what is required is here.

I humbly suggest that it would be a good thing if ACTION routes were made available. All you well connected Rioters please raise the issue with those of influence! All you ordinary scumbag Rioters please at least drop ACTION a line!

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Well done to patrick_keogh and everyone else who wrote to ACTION.

What I note is really interesting about this sort of tech is that eventually it can work two ways. ACTION ends up with data saying “40 people an hour on weekends want to get from Civic to Manuka” they then have an idea of demand to plan new services etc.

Thank you for your email regarding Google information about public transport in Canberra ( ACTION).

I am pleased to advise that ACTION is currently evaluating the options to improve online journey planning. One of these options is through Google and ACTION is currently in discussions with Google Transit.

>I wonder if the use of the bike racks would drop much if the cyclists were charged full fare like everybody else?

I doubt it. A lot of my friends use the bike racks and rave about how useful they are and most of them said the would use it even if they had to pay. I think the free ticket was just a good way to encourage people to have a go at using them, Now they understand how they work and how useful they are.